The London Olympics may be over, but a prominent group of U.S. track and field athletes isn’t letting one of the Games’ hot-button issues fade: the furor over Rule 40, the International Olympic Committee provision which prohibits athletes from promoting non-official sponsors during a period around the Games. Read USA Today
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Poor hippo can swim but not climb out of the pool
A young hippopotamus plopped into the pool on Tuesday at the Monate Conservation Lodge north of Johannesburg. The pool is big enough for the hippo to swim but it’s eight feet deep with no steps and “there’s no way he can come out,” lodge manager Ruby Ferreira told The Associated Press on Thursday. Now the will have to sedate the hippo and lift it out of the pool with a crane, much of the water already drained to make the extraction easier. Via Mercury News
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Symmonds tries for the beer mile world record (and fails)
Hopefully not swimming related (now, that would be an *evil* record), but here is track runner Nick Symmonds trying to break the “beer mile” world record, in which a runner has to chug a beer at quarter-mile intervals. He finished in 5:19, 10 seconds short of the world record of 5:09 set by Canadian marathoner Jim Finlayson. Via USA Today
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Business deals drying up for Grant Hackett
Grant Hackett has been dumped as ambassador for Uncle Tobys after 14 years, and Channel 9 is unlikely to re-sign him when his four-year contract finishes next month. His two-year deal with Kumho also ends next month, a spokesman for the Korean manufacturer said it is being reviewed. Read Adelaide Now
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Michael Phelps featured on xkcd
Giggle, see xkcd
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Cullen Jones has a PSA for black families
See GlobalGrind, Cullen Jones has a public service announcement for black families, to make sure their kids know how to swim. Also, he wants to date Zoe Saldana.
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CC photo #237: 2012 Swim Across the Bay of KlaksvÃk start position
My wife took this photo just before the start of the 2012 Swim Across the Bay of KlaksvÃk. Our oldest daughter right in front of her, filming the event. Team work ! :-)
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Idaho woman hypothermic after “sleep swimming”
A 31-year-old woman who went missing in the early hours of yesterday morning was found on a river bank quarter of a mile away, soaking wet and suffering from hypothermia after apparently swimming there in her sleep. Read for instance Mail Online and The Olympian
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Video: Ryan Lochte and Prince Harry race each other at that Vegas pool party
Behold Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte and Prince Harry third-in-line-to-the-throne-of-Britain racing each other in a Las Vegas pool over the weekend. Breaststroke, heads above water. See for instance Popsugar and the NY Daily News
Here is another video also showing the start, apparently there was a third swimmer also, maybe the judge?
Later, Prince Harry also wrestled a girl while naked, footage confirmed by the Palace, so I guess he won the duathlon.
